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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Town Clerk in Kentucky has refused to give out a marriage license to a gay couple, risking jail time, because the two of them marrying “does not...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
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On this edition of God Matters, host Peter Kreten welcomes to the program Dr. Graziano Marcheschi, Vice-President for University Mission and Minist...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 27:56
Caption: Syracuse University Passover in the Carrier Dome Breaks Their Record with 530 People in Attendance
Hillel at Syracuse University shows us how easy it just may be to set a Guinness World Record and be remembered by the world.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
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In the wake of the recent attacks on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo as well as continued fighting the group known as ISIS, there has been increa...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:30
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S. Brent Plate on materiality and lived experience. Natasha Alford on Memphis, Martin Luther King, and Ferguson.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 41:08
Caption: Onlookers press against the barrier to take photos of the display depicting the biblical creation of the world in the church of San Bartolome Bacerra, Friday., Credit: Benjamin Reeves
Religious devotion and carnival revelry combined Friday night as thousands of devout Catholics gathered in the small Guatemalan village of San Bart...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 01:43
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The Amish are among several religious groups that are exempt from the Affordable Care Act. Erika Beras talks to members of an Amish community in We...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 2
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War and violence never exist in a vacuum. Intrastate conflict often has far-reaching effects that extend outside a nation’s borders. War News Radio...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 1
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The Islamic Holy Month Ramadan ends today and a celebration was held today in Bloomington. Alycin Bektesh brings us this report.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:47
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What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Pictured: Hijras in India celebrating Koovagam, a Hindu festival dedicated to the deity Aravan., Credit: Wikipedia
Culture gives us permission - or denies us permission - to express what we find is true and real in ourselves. There is nothing natural, or inevita...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 20:44
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The term "Hinduism" refers to a multitude of traditions, so it's no surprise that Hindu attitudes towards sexuality and homosexuality are complex. ...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:27
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For Buddhists, whether homosexuality is "right" or "wrong" isn't the question - it's more important to ask whether a behavior is "skillfull" or "un...

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  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Like many other conservative-leaning Christian denominations, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially condemns homosexual acts. ...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 11:54
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Anita Sherrill knew she was a lesbian since she was a little girl. But reconciling her sexuality with her Christianity, and with her father, hasn't...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:40
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African-American Christian denominations run the gamut, from Baptist and Evangelical to Roman Catholic. One thing they've have tended to share, tho...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 15:46
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Rev. Richard Cizik says he's undergone an "evolution" about the place of gays and lesbians in Evangelical Christianty - and says that American Evan...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:48
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Compared with mainliners, Evangelical Christians emphasize a more personal relationship with Jesus, and believe they have a sacred duty to share th...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:23
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Eve Tushnet is gay, Catholic, and proudly celibate. A recent convert, she decided she couldn't be a good Catholic and a practicing lesbian at the s...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 17:00
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When Celestine married Hilary 34 years ago, they were a typical heterosexual couple, bound by love and their vows of Catholic marriage. So 17 years...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:52
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In recent years, the Episicopal church has changed its rules on homosexuality, creating same-sex blessings and ordaining gay clergy. That hasn’t go...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 16:45
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Bishop Marianne Budde, the spiritual leader of some 40,000 Episcopalians in the DC-Metro area, shares the church’s official stance on homosexuality...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 15:18
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The director of one of the largest mosques in America presents Islam’s traditional approach to homosexuality: being gay is acceptable, but acting o...

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  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
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A gay, devout Muslim man recounts growing up in Pakistan, where being homosexual wasn’t just abnormal, it “wasn’t part of the vocabulary.” After mo...

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  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1